aashpak1

Liked the clean UI. Very useful stuff. But it stopped after playing few (-5) songs everytime, the youtube player keeps showing that the song is still buffering.

so whats the most efficient way to detect such 'infinite' storage drives programmatically ?! :)

I've been waiting for some really useful apps to come out of linkedin platform - unlike the reading list kinda apps which are not at all making use of the real potential of the platform. I think the linkedin API is very very limited at the moment.

He also says >>> housing is a great investment right now. I think housing prices have gone down far enough and I can list the reasons why housing as an abstract investment concept is going to go higher from here.

I wonder how do insurance companies survive such natural disasters?

Sure, the CC data can easily be stolen even now but assuming square gets popular, consumers then will have to "trust one more device" in addition to the card-readers used by merchants, any other place where you swipe the card, the waiter, etc etc. And more so because its much easier to write rouge apps or malware-apps for smartphones than to hack the dedicated card readers. In case of a malware-app, the danger is not just limited to one merchant. It seems to me that the real question raised by verifone is not being given enough concern. Why can't the square card encrypt the CC data ?? with a private key that only square-app can make sense of?

totally agree - making the self-learning part offline and creating more and better (teachers would know exactly where a particular student is having problems understanding) interactions is the best part of his model.

May be a bit off topic but I think,

With new superior models coming every year, time for Apple to do some innovation in the business-model (well, in addition to the app-ecosystem they created) and move to a subscription-based model :)

One pays few grands (say $2k) every year to upgrade i/pod/phone/pad to the latest version.

(well, they have recycling program with 90% depreciation!!)

I found it very interesting how he applied data-analysis techniques [at time 12:33 in the video] to provide teachers with a better and correct understanding of each student's shortcomings (probably from his insights from his earlier profession on the Wall St.) that will take the student/tutor interaction to a new level!

> We need ... so that we can help "you"

(really means) > we need "your" help to bootstrap the network

:)

>> And during these 20 years, we've been through the Biotech boom, Internet boom, and are on the verge of another boom

Are you missing the possibility that there might have been more/better booms and outcomes if immigration laws were not as fucked up?

The overall article assumes that or speaks for the cases where the complaints are insincere and how the law "protects" the websites.

But what if the complaints are genuine? The law seems to give the websites no incentive to do the right thing!!

> So lack of apps is not really a burning problem.

The converse of above statement is a richer ecosystem is not really an advantage or incentive for developers!